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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you to those people who have posted with suggestions for supplementing my kids' education and changing my perspective on what makes for a good education. I don't really understand why people have posted saying no, their kids' education is much better than their own -- good for you, but that is the opposite of my situation. We will keep our eyes open and supplement where we can, and consider the nuclear option of moving if we absolutely have to.

To those who couldn't understand how this was possible: my story is not uncommon given the rising inequality in this country and the tremendous differences in cost of living. I'm not going to name names and get into a discussion of specific schools, but I grew up in a mid size college town far from big cities, with little poverty but also very few super rich. I now live in the D.C. metro area within commuting distance of the city, where the rich are doing great but there's very little middle class, and significant numbers of quite poor families. The hollowing out of the middle class is real, and it's amplified in urban areas. Combine that with a trend away from advanced classes (or just calling everyone "advanced" now) and what I see are classes with an extremely wide range of needs, with nobody really being taught exactly at their level. I'm sure I sound sentimental and I hope I'm wrong. [/quote]

Well, yes...DC is literally the most unequal of the 51 "states." The other 50 states are all better in the distribution of income...every single one. In that respect, literally moving anywhere else in the country would land you in a less unequal environment.

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